Bill Kurtis Quotes

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

I would not leave the 'Times' for a television job.

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

When I left I knew I was gonna go back to WWE. But I needed to go because whatever I was doing wasn't working. I needed to take a chance on myself and get better. The only way to do that was take some risks and go somewhere.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.

Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.

It wasn't easy to leave the country. To make the decision to leave everything? I was born and raised with all my friends and family members. It was a huge step in my career. Now you're committed to basketball.

I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent.

I had become a bit spoiled or complacent at Sporting and I needed a kick up the backside, which is what Everton gave me. It was quite tough going to an unfamiliar place where I didn't know anyone at first.

When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.

I must learn to adapt, or else I'll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.

Of course I would have liked to have spent my whole life at Real Madrid, but if it cannot be, it cannot be, and you have to move on.

Maybe I'll have a different role in the NBA than college.

I moved from current affairs to daily news over the Asia crisis of 1998 - mainly because the news agenda demanded I become economically literate.

The big experience of feeling like I jumped off into the deep end was that transition from college into the workforce. There were so many unwritten rules I didn't understand.

Both of my parents were college-educated within the curriculum in Haiti. When they came to the United States, both had to learn English. My mother worked in retail and continues to do so today, working as the lead sales representative in a fine-jewelry store. My father became a machinist.

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.

I moved from Denmark to America. I left my family. I left my school. I left my friends. And it was basically to pursue my career, and I didn't know if it was going to work out. So that was very scary to leave everything and just put everything into a whole new thing where you don't know if you're going to make it or not. But I think I'm doing good.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

I wish I had gone into industrial plumbing. That's a joke.

After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.